Power List 2013: MEGAN SMITH

Google Executive/Inventor, 48

For nine years, Smith was in charge of business development and overseeing the tech giant’s philanthropic wing, DotOrg, but now she’s taken over as vice president of Google[x], a new venture looking for “radical solutions” to some “really big problems.” So, essentially, she’s trying to save the planet for us all.

For nine years, Smith was in charge of business development and overseeing the tech giant’s philanthropic wing, DotOrg, but now she’s taken over as vice president of Google[x], a new venture looking for “radical solutions” to some “really big problems.” So, essentially, she’s trying to save the planet for us all.